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Listeners' Tales Episodes

  1.

    Negar Roshanzamir

    Negar Roshanzamir from Iran talks about her unforgettable moments listening to the BBC

  2. Ali Mazrui

    Ali Mazrui remembers hearing Harold Macmillan's 'wind of change' speech on the BBC

  3. Jean Lacouture

    Writer Jean Lacouture recalls BBC broadcasts made by General de Gaulle

  4. Maree Gutterson

    Maree Gutterson recalls writing and recording her award-winning radio play Stuffed

  5. John Figliozzi

    New York shortwave listener John Figliozzi discovers new ways to listen to the BBC

  6. Anish Damodaran

    Anish Damodaran describes learning about his condition by listening to Medical Matters

  7. Carolee Morrison

    New York listener Carolee Morrison recalls the resumption of BBC broadcasts after 9/11

  8. Henry Brugsch

    Blind listener from Massachusetts Henry Brugsch reveals how much the BBC means to him

  9. Pranab Mukherjee

    Pranab Mukherjee recalls hearing news of Indira Gandhi's assassination on the BBC

  10. Joan Sherley

    New Zealander Joan Sherley tells of the time she heard King George on the radio in 1932

  11. Yang Hong

    Chinese listener Yang Hong describes winning a BBC competition to see the Olympic Games

  12. Marcel Beleyn

    Marcel Beleyn is an English teacher in Belgium and tells how he has used the BBC in his teachings.

  13. Zedenek Hron

    Zedenek Hron describes what the BBC meant to him under communist rule in the 1960s and 70s

  14. Terry Waite

    Former hostage Terry Waite describes how the BBC helped him through his ordeal

  15. Walter Perera

    Walter Perera describes what the BBC has meant to him throughout his life.

  16. Khushwant Singh

    Indo-Anglian novelist Khushwant Singh describes hearing a 1945 BBC broadcast

  17. Ermias Ayn Ekulu

    Ethiopian Ermias Ayn Ekulu describes how the BBC altered his view of women